[BackupPC-users] Backuppc authentication mail

2011-02-22 Thread egrimisu
Hi, as i was realy busy in the past year i haven't try your config till now, and i wanted to let you know that everything worked flawlessly. Thnaks again. Misu +-- |This was sent by egrim...@yahoo.com via Backup Central.

Re: [BackupPC-users] I can't seem to re-install BackupPC after messing around with mountpoints

2011-02-22 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 02/21 06:16 , Dennis Blewett wrote: 2011-02-21 18:11:04 Can't create a test hardlink between a file in /var/lib/backuppc/pc and /var/lib/backuppc/cpool. Either these are different file systems, or this file system doesn't support hardlinks, or these directories don't exist, or there is a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Trying to get everything under one foldertree

2011-02-22 Thread Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
On 02/21 10:03 , Dennis Blewett wrote: I'm using the web interface with localhost and tar as the Xfer method. Let's say I have these folders: /home/workstation/Desktop /home/workstation/Documents /office /research And I want all of those to be listed in /. So, when I look at the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup lasts forever rsync with linux

2011-02-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/22/2011 9:17 AM, Rob Morin wrote: So i have this server that started its backup at 10pm Yesterday. The logs below say it finished @ 1:52, however on the status page it still shows that its running and that it started at 5:50 am, my server has a high load with a PID that accompanies the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup lasts forever rsync with linux

2011-02-22 Thread Mark Maciolek
hi, Right from the documentation: For each complete, good, backup, BackupPC_link is run. To avoid race conditions as new files are linked into the pool area, only a single BackupPC_link program runs at a time and the rest are queued. BackupPC_link reads the NewFileList written by BackupPC_dump

Re: [BackupPC-users] I can't seem to re-install BackupPC after messing around with mountpoints

2011-02-22 Thread Anton Dollmaier
Hi, Glad to know you got this solved; but did you try making a hardlink on that filesystem yourself to see if that was indeed the problem? On Debian, simply re-installing the backuppc-package does not recreate folders in /var/lib/backuppc, like pc, cpool, pool etc. You'll have to

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup lasts forever rsync with linux

2011-02-22 Thread Rob Morin
Ok thanks, I had another first full backup run and it took 14 hours to complete, it was under 125 gigs... Thanks for the info Mark Les Rob Morin Systems Administrator Infinity Labs Inc. (514) 387-0638 Ext: 207 -Original Message- From: Mark Maciolek [mailto:macio...@unh.edu] Sent:

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup backuppc pool with rsync offsite

2011-02-22 Thread gregwm
rsync'ing the BackupPC data pool is generally recommended against. The number of hardlinks causes an explosive growth in memory consumption by rsync and while you may be able to get away with it if you have 20GB of data (depending on how much memory you have); you will likely run out of

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup backuppc pool with rsync offsite

2011-02-22 Thread Timothy J Massey
gregwm backuppc-us...@whitleymott.net wrote on 02/22/2011 11:26:51 AM: this issue sure comes up alot, and perhaps i should just keep quiet since i personally am in no position to do it or even go off looking for an rsync forum, nor do i have any knowledge of just how convoluted the rsync

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup backuppc pool with rsync offsite

2011-02-22 Thread Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
gregwm wrote at about 10:26:51 -0600 on Tuesday, February 22, 2011: rsync'ing the BackupPC data pool is generally recommended against. The number of hardlinks causes an explosive growth in memory consumption by rsync and while you may be able to get away with it if you have 20GB of

Re: [BackupPC-users] Trying to get everything under one foldertree

2011-02-22 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 2/21/2011 11:03 PM, Dennis Blewett wrote: I'm using the web interface with localhost and tar as the Xfer method. Let's say I have these folders: /home/workstation/Desktop /home/workstation/Documents /office /research And I want all of those to be listed in /. So, when I look at the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup backuppc pool with rsync offsite

2011-02-22 Thread Dennis Blewett
13,849 items, totalling 3.8 GB It would appear that I have a feasible number of files. I'm not sure how many more files I will have by the end of April, though. I've read about that rsync -H would be a practical command to use on the backuppc folder. What I'm also curious about is if I should

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup backuppc pool with rsync offsite

2011-02-22 Thread Timothy J Massey
Dennis Blewett dennis.blew...@gmail.com wrote on 02/22/2011 10:17:29 PM: 13,849 items, totalling 3.8 GB It would appear that I have a feasible number of files. I'm not sure how many more files I will have by the end of April, though. I've read about that rsync -H would be a practical